Ok. Over the holidays, I built my core from scratch, changing the main drive to a 500G SATA disk, to allow for recordings from mythtv. Now after I had the core discover all my media drives, and set them up, everything is working great. So I figure I would get my insteon set up running again.

I had a (skeletal, rudimentry) Insteon PLC USB C++ driver built on the pluto Zwave model in the source tree a while ago. Pluto was supposed to get it into a release about a year and a half ago but for various reasons they never did that. I've been busy for a while, but now things have loosened up a bit at work (maybe less 7 day weeks), I want to go get this thing moving along once and for all.

Ok. Over the holidays, I built my core from scratch, changing the main drive to a 500G SATA disk, to allow for recordings from mythtv. Now after I had the core discover all my media drives, and set them up, everything is working great. So I figure I would get my insteon set up running again.

This keeps looping. I guess tonight I will try to plug the lamp dimmer module directly into the same outlet as the PLM. I would hope that using my access points that this would not be necessary. But at this point I am willing to try anything.

What I have done so far:

Switched to a USB to Serial adapter in lieu of the on board port, as it was using a header, instead of being a physical port.

Unplugged everything but the PLM and the Dimmer Module

I have pressed and held in the button on the PLM until it started blinking, then pressed the button in on the Dimmer module. The light attached to the dimmer socket blinked twice, and then the PLM stopped blinking.

The table top controller works swimmingly.

The only thing I have not tried yet was plug the Dimmer module into the same outlet as the PLM.

I have no other ideas on how to resolve this issue.

Any help at all is appreciated.

Regards,

Seth

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Weird... I did have a #141 ruby code(CD/DVD???), but not the 161. Removing the code from #141 got me an error free log, but I'm still struggling with getting PLM to work. It looks like the PLM is recognized, but it doesn't detect Insteon devices on the network. BTW, I've got the LampLinc starter kit just like you did.Another thing I've noticed is that when I run: /usr/pluto/bin/TestSerialPort -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -P N81 -b 19200 -t "\02\60" -i 1 -s "\03\05", I'm not always getting the same results which is weird. Here is some examples: "\02`\0fB\e8\03", "\02","\06"

As far as I understand this command suppose to return an identification string from PLM. Not sure what to think.

I'm having similar problems getting Insteon child devices to respond. I have a lamp module that I can't seem to get to work. I have followed the wiki, including the 'next steps' section which includes pairing the first device. I am struggling to get a grasp on Insteon and would appreciate any help.

I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but here is my experience, I got my basic Insteon setup working on my Hybrid (7.10) using PC serial port, by following the wiki instructions "http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Setting_Up_PLM_Template" step by step and cleaning the Ruby code first before I pasted in the template, by copying the code from the wiki page to a text file, removing some html code, then I pasted the code from the text file to the template, and I removed code #141 ruby code(CD/DVD) from the template, after rebooting my Hybrid, and linking my "Insteon Outlinc" to my PLM (Serial port), another Hybrid reboot, then I added a lamp to the floor map, and I was able to turn On/Off the lamp which is connected to Insteon Outlinc "http://www.insteon.net/2473SWH-outletlinc.html".

currently i'm trying the same configuration on 8.10 hybrid using default insteon PLM template, with "USB to Serial adapter", I replaced "/dev/ttyS0" on the default template with "/dev/ttyUSB0" with no luck, I know my "/dev/ttyUSB0" is working using